(由 Google 翻译)野花咖啡馆(The Wildflower)。这家咖啡馆令人惊艳,精心布置,充满艺术气息,光线充足,室外有一个美丽的香草花园,还有一丛名为“蝴蝶灌木”(Butterfly Bush)的灌木丛,里面挤满了大黄蜂。店主夫妇来自托菲诺,你能感受到,托菲诺的一切都洋溢着海水的喜悦和完美的时机。我从一位可爱的咖啡师那里学到了很多咖啡知识,她正在学习环保主义(当然,她来自托菲诺尤克卢利特地区)。
例如,我之前不知道:研磨机里的咖啡豆必须装满才能研磨,因为咖啡豆的重量变化会导致研磨度不同。我之前也不知道湿度和温度会影响咖啡,研磨度需要随着一天的推移不断调整。一杯理想的浓缩咖啡应该在28秒(我忘了)到32秒之间。时间过长,研磨度就会过细,过少则会过粗。
我的母亲知道,她常说我前世一定是个女王,我热爱美丽和颓废......不,不是享乐主义的颓废:而是优雅......那种喜欢美丽和品质而不是将金钱和经济置于生活之上而产生的丑陋感觉的人的结合。那就是知道一个人真的把他们的神圣本质投入到了某件事物中,他们的灵魂,他们的灵性,将他们创造性的上帝存在投入到他们所爱的事物中,这是全人类的祝福。
我喜欢 1% 的极品。最无形和最精致的物品。这个地方满足了所有这些愿望:自然美景和设计精美的高架床花园,里面种满了茴香、薰衣草、盛开的细香葱、卷心菜、萝卜、薄荷和迷迭香。咖啡看起来也很美,用快乐的彩色杯子盛着香气扑鼻的 Drumroaster 咖啡(让所有东西的味道都更好)。当你口渴时,清澈的泉水从看似自然的喷水嘴中倾泻而下,尝起来如同冰川般清新。店内店外摆放着光滑优雅的木质长椅和椅子,还有一个带顶棚的凉亭。店内还有琳琅满目的糕点和美食,还有店家自己的糕点师!最棒的是,它位于一条人迹罕至的主干道上,不会让人被汽油味呛到。我喜欢这里的热闹与宁静。每个人都很平和。这里没有温哥华人那种匆忙寻找最新美食的氛围,也没有游客那种挑剔的需求,他们似乎在不断汲取新鲜血液的旅程中,将眼前的一切吸干殆尽。
在我看来,野花咖啡馆位于一个典型的加拿大小镇。它可能是BC省,或者至少是整个岛上仅存的一家。老爷车,许多略显破败的历史建筑,以及许多美丽的古老教堂。宽阔的道路和茂密的森林。天哪,我希望开发商永远不要发现这个地方。他们将在2.5秒内摧毁它,就像他们摧毁了BC省的每一个社区一样。这个地方完美无瑕,原住民、殖民者、艺术家、农民、工人,以及为了前往托菲诺而来来往往的人们,还有许多冲浪者,他们被迫离开本该属于他们的家园——托菲诺,来到这里开拓自己的生活。
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The Wildflower. It is a stunning, curated, artist, light filled cafe with a beautiful herb garden outside and a shrub called Butterfly Bush, FULL to the brim of bumble bees. The couple who own it are from Tofino and you just get the sense, that everything Tofino flows with the joy of ocean waters and perfect timing. I had a great coffee education from the lovely barista who is studying to be an environmentalist (from the Tofino Ucluelet area of course).
I had no idea that for instance: the beans in the grinder have to be full before grinding them as the displaced weight causes the grind to be different. Or that the humidity and temperature affect the coffee and the grind needs to be constantly recalibrated as the day goes on. An ideal expresso is sussposed to take between 28 (I forget) and 32 seconds. Any longer and the grind is too fine and less it is too thick.
As my Mother knows, who often says I must have been a Queen in a past life, I LOVE beauty and decadence... no not hedonistic decadence: elegance... that combination of someone who prefers beauty and quality over the ugly feeling that comes from putting money and economics over life. That is knowing that someone has actually put their divine essence into something, their soul, their spirituality that puts their creative God presence into what they love, and that is the blessing for all of humanity.
I love the 1% of the best of the best of the best. The most intangible and exquisite of items. This place caters to all of those desires: natural beauty and garden of beautifully designed raised beds to view which is full of fennel, lavender, blooming chives, cabbage, radishes, mint and rosemary. The coffee is also beautiful to look at with the very aromatic Drumroaster coffee in happy, colorful mugs ( which makes everything taste better). When you get thirsty there is delicious clear water that tasted glacially fresh pouring from a natural looking installed water spout, smooth, elegant wood benches and chairs inside and out, with a covered pergola. There is an incredible selection of pastries and food with their own pastry chef! The best part is that it is on a main street with so little traffic that you are not choking on gas fumes. I love how busy and quiet it is here. Everyone is peaceful. It doesn't have the vibe of frantic Vancouverites looking for their latest hit or the anxiety of tourists with their demanding needs that seem to suck the life out of everything they see as they go along in their journey of constant imbuements.
Wildflower cafe is in a decidedly Canadian town to me. Possibly the last one left in BC, or at least the island. Old cars, lots of heritage slightly run down buildings with lots of beautiful old churches. Big, wide roads and lots of forests. God, I hope the developers never find out about this place. They will destroy it in 2.5 seconds flat as they’ve destroyed every last community in BC. This place is perfect, a mix of Indigenous, colonizers, artists, farmers, workers, people flowing in and out as they pass through to get to Tofino and LOTS of surfers moving here to carve out their life as they have been displaced from what should still be there home: tofino.